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Asher Brown Durand
The Edge of the Forest
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1871
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199.4x162.5cm
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Asher Brown Durand
Study of Rocks with Trees.Hague,Lake George
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New York
1862
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Asher Brown Durand
Island with small trees,Lake George
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c.1862
31x47.2cm
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Asher Brown Durand
Black Mountain,From the harbor island,Lake George
mk218
c.1875
Oil on canvas
40.6x61cm
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Asher Brown Durand
Springfield Township
d. 1886, Maplewood) Kindred Spirits 1849 Oil on canvas, 117 x 92 cm Public Library, New York Asher B Durand, who was a leading figure in the 'Hudson River School' of American landscapists, painted Kindred Spirits in memory of his fellow painter Thomas Cole (1801-1848). He painted Cole and the poet William Cullen Bryant standing on a rock over a ravine in the Catskills sharing a moment of communion with the visible world and its creator. Author: DURAND, Asher Brown Title: Kindred Spirits Form: painting , 1801-1850 , American , landscape
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Asher Brown Durand
Landscape
ca. 1867(1867)
Oil on canvas
38.2 x 61.1 cm (15.04 x 24.06 in)
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Asher Brown Durand
Landscape (Birch and Oaks)
between 1855(1855) and 1857(1857)
Oil on canvas
60.8 x 45.4 cm (23.94 x 17.87 in)
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Asher Brown Durand
The First Harvest in the Wilderness
ca. 1855(1855)
Oil on canvas
80.3 x 122 cm (31.61 x 48.03 in)
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Asher Brown Durand
Kaaterskill Clove
"Kaaterskill Clove," oil on canvas, by the American artist Asher Brown Durand. 43.2 cm x 61 cm (17 in. x 24 in.) Courtesy of the Yale University Art Gallery, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.
1866
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Asher Brown Durand
Landscape
Date ca. 1867(1867)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 38.2 X 61.1 cm (15.04 X 24.06 in)
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Asher Brown Durand
Landscape
Date between 1855(1855) and 1857(1857)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 60.8 X 45.4 cm (23.94 X 17.87 in)
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Asher Brown Durand
Study of a Rock
"Study of a Rock," oil on canvas, by the American artist Asher Brown Durand. 42.5 cm x 56 cm (16 3/4 in. x 22 1/16 in.) Courtesy of the Yale University Art Gallery, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.
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Asher Brown Durand
First Harvest in the Wilderness
Date ca. 1855(1855)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 80.3 X 122 cm (31.61 X 48.03 in)
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Asher Brown Durand
Kaaterskill Clove
oil on canvas, by the American artist Asher Brown Durand. 43.2 cm x 61 cm (17 in. x 24 in.) Courtesy of the Yale University Art Gallery, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.
Date circa 1866
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Asher Brown Durand
Beacon Hills on the Hudson River,
Beacon Hills on the Hudson River, Opposite NewburghxPainted on the Spot, oil on canvas painting by Asher Brown Durand, ca. 1852
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Asher Brown Durand
Equestrian Portrait of Mademoiselle Croizette
1873(1873)
Medium Oil on canvas
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Asher Brown Durand
Beacon Hills on the Hudson River
oil on canvas painting by Asher Brown Durand, ca. 1852
Date ca. 1852
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Asher Brown Durand
A Summer Afternoon
A Summer Afternoon, oil on canvas, 30.25 x 42.25 inches
Date 1849(1849)
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Asher Brown Durand
Lake Scene in the Mountains
Lake Scene in the Mountains, oil on canvas, 60.96 cm (24 in.) by 91.44 cm (36 in.)
Date 1874(1874)
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Asher Brown Durand
Landscape
Landscape, oil on canvas, 15 1/16 x 24 1/16 in. (38.2 x 61.1 cm)
Date 1867(1867)
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1796-1886
Asher Brown Durand Galleries
His interest shifted from engraving to oil painting around 1830 with the encouragement of his patron, Luman Reed. In 1837, he accompanied his friend Thomas Cole on a sketching expedition to Schroon Lake in the Adirondacks and soon after he began to concentrate on landscape painting. He spent summers sketching in the Catskills, Adirondacks, and the White Mountains of New Hampshire, making hundreds of drawings and oil sketches that were later incorporated into finished academy pieces which helped to define the Hudson River School.
Durand is particularly remembered for his detailed portrayals of trees, rocks, and foliage. He was an advocate for drawing directly from nature with as much realism as possible. Durand wrote, "Let [the artist] scrupulously accept whatever [nature] presents him until he shall, in a degree, have become intimate with her infinity...never let him profane her sacredness by a willful departure from truth."
Like other Hudson River School artists, Durand also believed that nature was an ineffable manifestation of God. He expressed this sentiment and his general views on art in his "Letters on Landscape Painting" in The Crayon, a mid-19th century New York art periodical. Wrote Durand, "[T]he true province of Landscape Art is the representation of the work of God in the visible creation..."
Durand is noted for his 1849 painting Kindred Spirits which shows fellow Hudson River School artist Thomas Cole and poet William Cullen Bryant in a Catskills landscape. This was painted as a tribute to Cole upon his death in 1848. The painting, donated by Bryant's daughter Julia to the New York Public Library in 1904, was sold by the library through Sotheby's at an auction in May 2005 to Alice Walton for a purported $35 million. The sale was conducted as a sealed, first bid auction, so the actual sales price is not known. At $35 million, however, it would be a record price paid for an American painting at the time.
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